In Flower this Week

A weekly news sheet prepared by a Gardens' volunteer.
Numbers in square brackets [] refer to garden bed Sections.
Plants in flower are in bold type.

29 April 2005

Leptospermum squarrosum
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As the Main Path weaves through a maze of colour this walk will focus on a few eye-catching flowers, commencing at the far end of the Café building. The dwarf plants of Hypocalymma jessicae [Section 12], only named in 2003, are covered with pink feathery flowers . Leptospermum squarrosum [Section 12], an upright, many branched shrub crowds its lovely pink open flowers around the old wood. An emu bush , Eremophila subfloccosa subsp. subfloccosa [Section 302] wraps its branches with grey green foliage allowing small vivid green tubular flowers to peep through.